Join the City Archives for a screening and community discussion as part of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanitie s "Currents" film series\, where we will show John Richie's "Iron Sharpens Iron".
\n"Iron Sharpens Iron" is the story of the historically Blac k community of Ironton in Plaquemines Parish\, which has found itself at t he forefront of both coastal change and recent efforts to address it. This film captures this community&rsquo\;s fight against the development of th e Plaquemines Liquids Terminal (PLT) atop land that includes their ancestr al cemetery.
\nThe two consulting producers on this film are \;A ngela A. Allen-Bell\, a B. K. Agnihotri Endowed Professor at \;Souther n University Law Center\, and coastal scientist Dr. Alex Kolker. They will lead a discussion on the impacts that coastal and minority communities ex perience at the hands of fossil fuel corporations in southern Louisiana.\n
This is a hybrid event with both virtual and in-person access. Atte nd in person at the Algiers Regional Library\, or click the "Register" but ton to sign up for the Zoom meeting.
\nThis program is made poss ible through an LEH grant and the help of the Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.
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